What is your daycare doing with the new CDC guidelines?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:At the Montgomery County Council session going on right now, Dr. Bridgers said they are currently still recommending masks in child care and are waiting until the CDC updates its specific child care guidance so that they can make their own guidance (???) so I'd expect any providers following DHHS guidance to keep masks for quite a while.

Oh my god. So pretty soon the only people under a mask mandate will be kids 2-5. Despite being in low risk. What the actual hell. If I could go back in time we would have moved to one of the many countries who never required masks for kids under six. I feel so naive for not realizing it was going to go on this long. We are so so so far removed from the rest of the world on how we have treated our children.

+1 Yep

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:At the Montgomery County Council session going on right now, Dr. Bridgers said they are currently still recommending masks in child care and are waiting until the CDC updates its specific child care guidance so that they can make their own guidance (???) so I'd expect any providers following DHHS guidance to keep masks for quite a while.

Oh my god. So pretty soon the only people under a mask mandate will be kids 2-5. Despite being in low risk. What the actual hell. If I could go back in time we would have moved to one of the many countries who never required masks for kids under six. I feel so naive for not realizing it was going to go on this long. We are so so so far removed from the rest of the world on how we have treated our children.

+1 Yep

This is sickening. It's time to treat these people (especially Dr. Bridgers) like we treated Trump and his ilk. She should not be able to show her face in public unmasked for the rest of her life.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:At the Montgomery County Council session going on right now, Dr. Bridgers said they are currently still recommending masks in child care and are waiting until the CDC updates its specific child care guidance so that they can make their own guidance (???) so I'd expect any providers following DHHS guidance to keep masks for quite a while.

Oh my god. So pretty soon the only people under a mask mandate will be kids 2-5. Despite being in low risk. What the actual hell. If I could go back in time we would have moved to one of the many countries who never required masks for kids under six. I feel so naive for not realizing it was going to go on this long. We are so so so far removed from the rest of the world on how we have treated our children.

+1 Yep

This is sickening. It's time to treat these people (especially Dr. Bridgers) like we treated Trump and his ilk. She should not be able to show her face in public unmasked for the rest of her life.

*Wrong pronouns - he/his

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:At the Montgomery County Council session going on right now, Dr. Bridgers said they are currently still recommending masks in child care and are waiting until the CDC updates its specific child care guidance so that they can make their own guidance (???) so I'd expect any providers following DHHS guidance to keep masks for quite a while.

I’m a daycare owner and masks are optional. You really have to pay attention to the language they are using. Recommending is not required. They will continue to recommend masks until Kingdom come but they are not required. The Montgomery county council has been very sneaky in their language regarding their authority and what day cares are required or not required to do.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:At the Montgomery County Council session going on right now, Dr. Bridgers said they are currently still recommending masks in child care and are waiting until the CDC updates its specific child care guidance so that they can make their own guidance (???) so I'd expect any providers following DHHS guidance to keep masks for quite a while.

I’m a daycare owner and masks are optional. You really have to pay attention to the language they are using. Recommending is not required. They will continue to recommend masks until Kingdom come but they are not required. The Montgomery county council has been very sneaky in their language regarding their authority and what day cares are required or not required to do.

And I won't vote for any of the fools that "recommend" masks because that results in our daycare requiring them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:At the Montgomery County Council session going on right now, Dr. Bridgers said they are currently still recommending masks in child care and are waiting until the CDC updates its specific child care guidance so that they can make their own guidance (???) so I'd expect any providers following DHHS guidance to keep masks for quite a while.

Oh my god. So pretty soon the only people under a mask mandate will be kids 2-5. Despite being in low risk. What the actual hell. If I could go back in time we would have moved to one of the many countries who never required masks for kids under six. I feel so naive for not realizing it was going to go on this long. We are so so so far removed from the rest of the world on how we have treated our children.

You definitely do not need to move to another country lol. Plenty of reasonable states, including the one we moved to end of 2020 after we saw the writing on the wall. The only time my child has to mask is on the airplane and fingers crossed that’ll change this month. Before we moved I called several daycares (during height of pandemic and mask-craze) and asked about masking kids and none of them had ever even considered the possibility of masking under 5.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:At the Montgomery County Council session going on right now, Dr. Bridgers said they are currently still recommending masks in child care and are waiting until the CDC updates its specific child care guidance so that they can make their own guidance (???) so I'd expect any providers following DHHS guidance to keep masks for quite a while.

Oh my god. So pretty soon the only people under a mask mandate will be kids 2-5. Despite being in low risk. What the actual hell. If I could go back in time we would have moved to one of the many countries who never required masks for kids under six. I feel so naive for not realizing it was going to go on this long. We are so so so far removed from the rest of the world on how we have treated our children.

You definitely do not need to move to another country lol. Plenty of reasonable states, including the one we moved to end of 2020 after we saw the writing on the wall. The only time my child has to mask is on the airplane and fingers crossed that’ll change this month. Before we moved I called several daycares (during height of pandemic and mask-craze) and asked about masking kids and none of them had ever even considered the possibility of masking under 5.

So the irony of all of this is that I was very COVID cautious for the first year plus of the pandemic and really did not want to move some where that was just doing whatever. I was insanely jealous of friends who lived in countries that had reasonable precautions but prioritized keep schools open and did not mask toddlers. I could not believe this country was so polarized I could not think of any where meeting that definition in the US (I’m sure it existed, I just did not know of anywhere). But at this point it just feels like we are just spitting on our children and deprioritizing them in every regard and I’d rather be in a “COVID doesn’t exist” state than here. I keep thinking things will improve and they are SLOWLY but I think about moving fairly often.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:At the Montgomery County Council session going on right now, Dr. Bridgers said they are currently still recommending masks in child care and are waiting until the CDC updates its specific child care guidance so that they can make their own guidance (???) so I'd expect any providers following DHHS guidance to keep masks for quite a while.

Oh my god. So pretty soon the only people under a mask mandate will be kids 2-5. Despite being in low risk. What the actual hell. If I could go back in time we would have moved to one of the many countries who never required masks for kids under six. I feel so naive for not realizing it was going to go on this long. We are so so so far removed from the rest of the world on how we have treated our children.

+1 Yep

You can still leave the country. What’s stopping you both?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DC

Nothing has changed so far. Still 10 day exposure quarantine, 7 day travel quarantine, temp checks, masks required for anyone over 2 and PCR required for any symptom including runny nose.

I’ve given up hope. We’re moving.

Similar, but no travel quarantine. And we need to visit with a doctor in addition (or in lieu of) to the PCR to get a note saying it is not COVID. They also tried to float a "symptom free for 24 hours" requirement verbally - but the written policy is fever-free for 24 hours + feeling better + symptoms improving.

Our daycare's rules are fuzzy on whether a "runny nose" requires a PCR/doctor, because the wording is "Excessive/persistent runny nose", and what does that even mean? But my kid's class is pretty cautious so there are fewer illnesses circulating this year. We needed 2 PCRs during fall cold season. We had one very slight runny nose on a Saturday that had mostly cleared up by Monday. For that one, we did antigen testing since the policy had some leeway. No symptoms at all so far in Jan/Feb, and we lost 4 days of care due to exposure quarantines. I'd be more pissed if we had frequent exposures or symptoms requirement tests, but this has actually been manageable, with sick absences on par with any other daycare year.

I do think the exposure quarantine and masking policies should be revisited soon, but most parents in my kids class are still supportive of them.

[Anonymous]

Fyi when Hogan asked schools to end mask mandate, he said nothing about child care and MSDE continues to recommend masking in CHD care. He is just as much of a coward as the rest of them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Fyi when Hogan asked schools to end mask mandate, he said nothing about child care and MSDE continues to recommend masking in CHD care. He is just as much of a coward as the rest of them.

Who should we be writing at MSDE?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:At the Montgomery County Council session going on right now, Dr. Bridgers said they are currently still recommending masks in child care and are waiting until the CDC updates its specific child care guidance so that they can make their own guidance (???) so I'd expect any providers following DHHS guidance to keep masks for quite a while.

Oh my god. So pretty soon the only people under a mask mandate will be kids 2-5. Despite being in low risk. What the actual hell. If I could go back in time we would have moved to one of the many countries who never required masks for kids under six. I feel so naive for not realizing it was going to go on this long. We are so so so far removed from the rest of the world on how we have treated our children.

+1 Yep

You can still leave the country. What’s stopping you both?

It’s really disturbing that people like you think masking 2-5 year olds for over two years for basically zero benefit is normal and reasonable.

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